Do you know someone who has made a lasting impact on the profession of pharmacy? Help recognize their achievements by nominating them for the Canadian Foundation for Pharmacy's Lifetime Achievement Award!
Recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Award have demonstrated dedicated service to the profession for 20 or more years, and have made an impact on the practice and/or advancement of pharmacy. The nomination criteria area as follows (and can be downloaded using the button below):
Please send nominations to submissions@cfpnet.ca.
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| Derek Desrosiers, left, and CFP Executive Director Dayle Acorn |
During his 36-year (and counting) career in pharmacy, Derek Desrosiers has become one of Canada's foremost authorities on the interplay between economic and professional practice issues in pharmacy. After working in community pharmacy for 13 years, including time as a pharmacy manager and owner, Derek became the Director of Professional Services at the B.C. Pharmacy Association in 1995. In 1999 he took up a similar role at uniPHARM Wholesale Drugs Ltd., then became Chief Executive Officer in 2004. While at uniPHARM he guided the company to achieve the designation of Canada’s Best Managed Companies. He returned to BCPhA in 2013 as Director, Pharmacy Practice Support, where he remain until his retirement in May 2018. For more than 20 years, Derek has been a staff member or board member of BCPhA, including six terms as President. He has also served as a Director of the Board of the Canadian Pharmacists Association, and a Director and Chairman of the Board of the Canadian Association for Pharmacy Distribution Management. Derek is also on CFP’s Board and was President in 2017. In 2011, he received CFP's prestigious Pillar of Pharmacy Award.
Derek currently has his own consulting company, Desson Consulting, where he helps pharmacy owners develop business plans. He is also a succession and acquisitions consultant with Rxownership.ca.
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| Derek Desrosiers, left, and CFP Executive Director Dayle Acorn |
During his 36-year (and counting) career in pharmacy, Derek Desrosiers has become one of Canada's foremost authorities on the interplay between economic and professional practice issues in pharmacy. After working in community pharmacy for 13 years, including time as a pharmacy manager and owner, Derek became the Director of Professional Services at the B.C. Pharmacy Association in 1995. In 1999 he took up a similar role at uniPHARM Wholesale Drugs Ltd., then became Chief Executive Officer in 2004. While at uniPHARM he guided the company to achieve the designation of Canada’s Best Managed Companies. He returned to BCPhA in 2013 as Director, Pharmacy Practice Support, where he remain until his retirement in May 2018. For more than 20 years, Derek has been a staff member or board member of BCPhA, including six terms as President. He has also served as a Director of the Board of the Canadian Pharmacists Association, and a Director and Chairman of the Board of the Canadian Association for Pharmacy Distribution Management. Derek is also on CFP’s Board and was President in 2017. In 2011, he received CFP's prestigious Pillar of Pharmacy Award.
Derek currently has his own consulting company, Desson Consulting, where he helps pharmacy owners develop business plans. He is also a succession and acquisitions consultant with Rxownership.ca.
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| Harold Lopatka, right, and CFP Past President David Edwards |
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| Derek Desrosiers, left, and CFP Executive Director Dayle Acorn |
During his 36-year (and counting) career in pharmacy, Derek Desrosiers has become one of Canada's foremost authorities on the interplay between economic and professional practice issues in pharmacy. After working in community pharmacy for 13 years, including time as a pharmacy manager and owner, Derek became the Director of Professional Services at the B.C. Pharmacy Association in 1995. In 1999 he took up a similar role at uniPHARM Wholesale Drugs Ltd., then became Chief Executive Officer in 2004. While at uniPHARM he guided the company to achieve the designation of Canada’s Best Managed Companies. He returned to BCPhA in 2013 as Director, Pharmacy Practice Support, where he remain until his retirement in May 2018. For more than 20 years, Derek has been a staff member or board member of BCPhA, including six terms as President. He has also served as a Director of the Board of the Canadian Pharmacists Association, and a Director and Chairman of the Board of the Canadian Association for Pharmacy Distribution Management. Derek is also on CFP’s Board and was President in 2017. In 2011, he received CFP's prestigious Pillar of Pharmacy Award.
Derek currently has his own consulting company, Desson Consulting, where he helps pharmacy owners develop business plans. He is also a succession and acquisitions consultant with Rxownership.ca.
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| Harold Lopatka, right, and CFP Past President David Edwards |
After graduating from the University of B.C. in 1974, Marshall Moleschi (pictured at right, with David Edwards) experienced pharmacy in almost all of its settings: community, hospital, long-term care and healthcare administration. Equipped with those experiences, he turned to the regulation of pharmacy as the focus for his leadership abilities, first as Registrar of the College of Pharmacists of B.C. and most recently as Registrar of the Ontario College of Pharmacists (OCP). He has helped guide the profession in both provinces through unprecedented changes to scope of practice, which included extensive travels to district meetings and provincial conferences to motivate pharmacists and pharmacy technicians to embrace the opportunities to expand their services to patients. In Ontario, Marshall evolved the College's practice assessments of pharmacies away from simply a traditional checklist of adherence to rules to include an evaluation of the practice, which includes coaching practitioners to enhance their delivery of pharmacy services. Marshall is also a Past President of the Canadian Foundation for Pharmacy. He retired as Registrar of OCP in September 2016.
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| Derek Desrosiers, left, and CFP Executive Director Dayle Acorn |
During his 36-year (and counting) career in pharmacy, Derek Desrosiers has become one of Canada's foremost authorities on the interplay between economic and professional practice issues in pharmacy. After working in community pharmacy for 13 years, including time as a pharmacy manager and owner, Derek became the Director of Professional Services at the B.C. Pharmacy Association in 1995. In 1999 he took up a similar role at uniPHARM Wholesale Drugs Ltd., then became Chief Executive Officer in 2004. While at uniPHARM he guided the company to achieve the designation of Canada’s Best Managed Companies. He returned to BCPhA in 2013 as Director, Pharmacy Practice Support, where he remain until his retirement in May 2018. For more than 20 years, Derek has been a staff member or board member of BCPhA, including six terms as President. He has also served as a Director of the Board of the Canadian Pharmacists Association, and a Director and Chairman of the Board of the Canadian Association for Pharmacy Distribution Management. Derek is also on CFP’s Board and was President in 2017. In 2011, he received CFP's prestigious Pillar of Pharmacy Award.
Derek currently has his own consulting company, Desson Consulting, where he helps pharmacy owners develop business plans. He is also a succession and acquisitions consultant with Rxownership.ca.
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| Harold Lopatka, right, and CFP Past President David Edwards |
After graduating from the University of B.C. in 1974, Marshall Moleschi (pictured at right, with David Edwards) experienced pharmacy in almost all of its settings: community, hospital, long-term care and healthcare administration. Equipped with those experiences, he turned to the regulation of pharmacy as the focus for his leadership abilities, first as Registrar of the College of Pharmacists of B.C. and most recently as Registrar of the Ontario College of Pharmacists (OCP). He has helped guide the profession in both provinces through unprecedented changes to scope of practice, which included extensive travels to district meetings and provincial conferences to motivate pharmacists and pharmacy technicians to embrace the opportunities to expand their services to patients. In Ontario, Marshall evolved the College's practice assessments of pharmacies away from simply a traditional checklist of adherence to rules to include an evaluation of the practice, which includes coaching practitioners to enhance their delivery of pharmacy services. Marshall is also a Past President of the Canadian Foundation for Pharmacy. He retired as Registrar of OCP in September 2016.
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| CFP Past President Marshall Moleschi congratulates Ron Guse (right) |
During his 31 years at the College of Pharmacists of Manitoba (formerly the Manitoba Pharmaceutical Association), where he was Registrar from 1999 until his retirement in 2016, Ron Guse helped steer the profession of pharmacy through significant periods of change. He helped develop and champion the new Pharmaceutical Act, passed into law in 2006 and considered the most progressive legislation for pharmacists' scope of practice at the time. In 2002, working with the regulatory bodies for physicians and nurses, Ron was instrumental in launching Continued Care Prescriptions, which came to serve as a model for collaborative practice agreements in other provinces. And in 1999 he forged ahead through controversy and uncharted territory to establish regulatory guidelines and standards of practice for the new sector of international prescription service pharmacies (also known as cross-border mail order pharmacies).
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| Derek Desrosiers, left, and CFP Executive Director Dayle Acorn |
During his 36-year (and counting) career in pharmacy, Derek Desrosiers has become one of Canada's foremost authorities on the interplay between economic and professional practice issues in pharmacy. After working in community pharmacy for 13 years, including time as a pharmacy manager and owner, Derek became the Director of Professional Services at the B.C. Pharmacy Association in 1995. In 1999 he took up a similar role at uniPHARM Wholesale Drugs Ltd., then became Chief Executive Officer in 2004. While at uniPHARM he guided the company to achieve the designation of Canada’s Best Managed Companies. He returned to BCPhA in 2013 as Director, Pharmacy Practice Support, where he remain until his retirement in May 2018. For more than 20 years, Derek has been a staff member or board member of BCPhA, including six terms as President. He has also served as a Director of the Board of the Canadian Pharmacists Association, and a Director and Chairman of the Board of the Canadian Association for Pharmacy Distribution Management. Derek is also on CFP’s Board and was President in 2017. In 2011, he received CFP's prestigious Pillar of Pharmacy Award.
Derek currently has his own consulting company, Desson Consulting, where he helps pharmacy owners develop business plans. He is also a succession and acquisitions consultant with Rxownership.ca.
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| Harold Lopatka, right, and CFP Past President David Edwards |
After graduating from the University of B.C. in 1974, Marshall Moleschi (pictured at right, with David Edwards) experienced pharmacy in almost all of its settings: community, hospital, long-term care and healthcare administration. Equipped with those experiences, he turned to the regulation of pharmacy as the focus for his leadership abilities, first as Registrar of the College of Pharmacists of B.C. and most recently as Registrar of the Ontario College of Pharmacists (OCP). He has helped guide the profession in both provinces through unprecedented changes to scope of practice, which included extensive travels to district meetings and provincial conferences to motivate pharmacists and pharmacy technicians to embrace the opportunities to expand their services to patients. In Ontario, Marshall evolved the College's practice assessments of pharmacies away from simply a traditional checklist of adherence to rules to include an evaluation of the practice, which includes coaching practitioners to enhance their delivery of pharmacy services. Marshall is also a Past President of the Canadian Foundation for Pharmacy. He retired as Registrar of OCP in September 2016.
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| CFP Past President Marshall Moleschi congratulates Ron Guse (right) |
During his 31 years at the College of Pharmacists of Manitoba (formerly the Manitoba Pharmaceutical Association), where he was Registrar from 1999 until his retirement in 2016, Ron Guse helped steer the profession of pharmacy through significant periods of change. He helped develop and champion the new Pharmaceutical Act, passed into law in 2006 and considered the most progressive legislation for pharmacists' scope of practice at the time. In 2002, working with the regulatory bodies for physicians and nurses, Ron was instrumental in launching Continued Care Prescriptions, which came to serve as a model for collaborative practice agreements in other provinces. And in 1999 he forged ahead through controversy and uncharted territory to establish regulatory guidelines and standards of practice for the new sector of international prescription service pharmacies (also known as cross-border mail order pharmacies).
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| Susan Wedlake receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award from CFP Past President Marshall Moleschi |
Since becoming Registrar of the Nova Scotia College of Pharmacists (formerly Nova Scotia Pharmaceutical Society) in 1994, Susan Wedlake has accomplished a number of "firsts" for the profession in Nova Scotia, which have served as models for other provinces. She pioneered the SafetyNETRx program, which helps pharmacies implement quality-assurance measures to prevent medication errors. She took on a leadership role to develop standards of practice under an expanded scope of practice, particularly in the areas of lab information and testing, and assessing and prescribing for minor ailments. And Susan spearheaded legislation to create the new profession of pharmacy technician in Nova Scotia, one of the first provinces in Canada to do so. Susan retired as Registrar in 2015.
